Inflated Responses in Self-Assessed Health Mark Harris Department of Economics, Curtin University
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Inflated Responses in Self-Assessed Health
Mark HarrisDepartment of Economics, Curtin University
Bruce HollingsworthDepartment of Economics, Lancaster University
William GreeneStern School of Business, New York University
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Introduction
• Health sector an important part of developed countries’ economies: E.g., Australia 9% of GDP• To see if these resources are being effectively utilized, we need
to fully understand the determinants of individuals’ health levels• To this end much policy, and even more academic research, is
based on measures of self-assessed health (SAH) from survey data
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SAH vs. Objective Health Measures
Favorable SAH categories seem artificially high.
60% of Australians are either overweight or obese (Dunstan et. al, 2001)
1 in 4 Australians has either diabetes or a condition of impaired glucose metabolism
Over 50% of the population has elevated cholesterol
Over 50% has at least 1 of the “deadly quartet” of health conditions (diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholestrol)
Nearly 4 out of 5 Australians have 1 or more long term health conditions (National Health Survey, Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006)
Australia ranked #1 in terms of obesity rates
Similar results appear to appear for other countries
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SAH vs. Objective Health
Our objectives
1. Are these SAH outcomes are “over-inflated”
2. And if so, why, and what kinds of people are doing the over-inflating/mis-reporting?
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HILDA Data
The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) dataset:1. a longitudinal survey of households in Australia2. well tried and tested dataset3. contains a host of information on SAH and other health
measures, as well as numerous demographic variables
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Self Assessed Health
• “In general, would you say your health is: Excellent, Very good, Good, Fair or Poor?"• Responses 1,2,3,4,5 (we will be using 0,1,2,3,4)• Typically ¾ of responses are “good” or “very good” health; in
our data (HILDA) we get 72%
• Similar numbers for most developed countries• Does this truly represent the health of the nation?
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Recent Literature - Heterogeneity
• Carro (2012) • Ordered SAH, “good,” “so so,” bad”• Two effects: Random effects (Mundlak) in latent index function, fixed effects
in threshold
• Schurer and Jones(2011) • Heterogeneity, panel data, • “Generalized ordered probit:” different slope vectors for each outcome.
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Kerkhofs and Lindeboom, Health Economics, 1995• Subjective Health Measures and State Dependent Reporting Errors
• Incentive to “misreport” depends on employment status: employed, unemployed, retired, disabled
• Ho = an objective, observed health indicator
• H* = latent health = f1(Ho,X1)
• Hs = reported health = f2(H*,X2,S) • S = employment status, 4 observed categories• Ordered choice, • Boundaries depend on S,X2; Heterogeneity is induced by incentives produced by
employment status
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A Two Class Latent Class Model
True Reporter Misreporter
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Reporter Type Model
*
= 1 if r* > 0 True reporter
0 if r* 0 Misreporter
r is unobserved
r r rr x
r
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Y=4
Y=3
Y=2
Y=1
Y=0
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Pr(true,y) = Pr(true) * Pr(y | true)
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• Mis-reporters choose either good or very good• The response is determined by a probit model
* m m mm x
Y=3
Y=2
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Observed Mixture of Two Classes
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Pr( ) Pr( ) Pr( | ) Pr( ) Pr( | )y true y true misreporter y misreporter
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Who are the Misreporters?
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Priors and Posteriors
M=Misreporter, T=True reporter
Priors : Pr( ) ( ), Pr( ) ( )
Posteriors:
Noninflated outcomes 0, 1, 4
Pr( | 0,1,4) 0, Pr( | 0,1,4) ( )
Inflated outcomes 2, 3
Pr(
r r
r
M x T x
M y T y x
Pr( 2 | )Pr( )| 2)
Pr( 2 | )Pr( ) Pr( 2 | )Pr( )
y M MM y
y M M y T T
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General Results
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